Let me spell this out for you. The Common Dreams article states repeatedly that these things were looted "FOLLOWING THE FALL OF SADDAM"..HOWEVER..Saddam(Baghdad) fell on the 5th of April..our soldiers secured the site on the 7th and local villagers stated that the site was looted the week before when the Iraqi soldiers fled the site. At that time, our troops were just entering Iraq!
So, Greenpeacec and Common Dreams, just like the rest of the LSM, are not being truthful. The site was looted during the initial stages of the war, not after the fall of Baghdad.
Correction to my post. Baghdad fell on APRIL 9, 2003. Our troops were on the ground at Tuwaitha on April 7, 2003. So the Greenpeace and LSM media claim that the site was looted AFTER the fall of Baghdad is a BALD FACE LIE!!
Now we're arguing semantics. I imagine that's what you have to do when you don't really have an argument. I don't give a crap about Greenpeace or Common Dreams or timelines about who showed up when. Much the same way I feel about the Weekly Standard and the National Review. My point is that the government official is doing nothing but making wild guesses that can't (and haven't) be backed up considering that the yellowcake had been inventoried by 2002.